diff --git a/tests/integration/full/full_test_env_suit.py b/tests/integration/full/full_test_env_suit.py
index 10323a8b96951292c7c2faca065e0e07801fec6a..619636474bd268c362db0c1dcf31b13403d252b4 100644
--- a/tests/integration/full/full_test_env_suit.py
+++ b/tests/integration/full/full_test_env_suit.py
@@ -40,7 +40,7 @@ class FullTestEnvSuit(BaseEnvSuitTestSuite.EnvSuitTestSuite):
         run_dict['Environment']['EWS-Plotting']['Ethiopia']['FilterForCountry'] = "True"
         run_dict['Environment']['EWS-Plotting']['Kenya']['FilterForCountry'] = "True"
 
-        os.makedirs(IntegrationTestUtils.TEST_OUT_PATH)
+        os.makedirs(IntegrationTestUtils.TEST_OUT_PATH, exist_ok = True)
         IntegrationTestUtils.TEMP_CONFIG_FILE_NAME = IntegrationTestUtils.TEST_OUT_PATH + "temp_config.json"
         IntegrationTestUtils.write_json_file(run_dict, IntegrationTestUtils.TEMP_CONFIG_FILE_NAME)
 
diff --git a/tests/integration/full/full_test_survey.py b/tests/integration/full/full_test_survey.py
index 9a9f294bb5b6593a716f71caac77850cb3d6bee3..157d6cc607c84c18218efc4a479c62fb0531bbec 100644
--- a/tests/integration/full/full_test_survey.py
+++ b/tests/integration/full/full_test_survey.py
@@ -35,7 +35,7 @@ class FullTestSurvey(BaseSurveyTestSuite.SurveyTestSuite):
         run_dict['WorkspacePath'] = IntegrationTestUtils.TEST_OUT_PATH
         run_dict['Survey']['SkipServerDownload'] = False
 
-        os.makedirs(IntegrationTestUtils.TEST_OUT_PATH)
+        os.makedirs(IntegrationTestUtils.TEST_OUT_PATH, exist_ok = True)
         IntegrationTestUtils.TEMP_CONFIG_FILE_NAME = IntegrationTestUtils.TEST_OUT_PATH + "temp_config.json"
         IntegrationTestUtils.write_json_file(run_dict, IntegrationTestUtils.TEMP_CONFIG_FILE_NAME)
 
diff --git a/tests/integration/partial/integration_test_utils.py b/tests/integration/partial/integration_test_utils.py
index 916d933f84c371a75815009c90cda6f2d2707f94..c52a98a3bfefa7fb723d61356085b2a3c4533d35 100644
--- a/tests/integration/partial/integration_test_utils.py
+++ b/tests/integration/partial/integration_test_utils.py
@@ -102,7 +102,7 @@ class IntegrationTestUtils:
             _test_report_dir = IntegrationTestUtils.TEST_JOB_DIR
 
         """
-        the HTMLTestRunner will create the directory if it does not exist, we are putting the poutout into the 
+        the HTMLTestRunner will create the directory if it does not exist, we are putting the output into the 
         TEST_OUT_PATH, which is the top-level test directory for this run, not the TEST_JOB_DIR, which is the dir
         for the pipeline being tested
         """